THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE
Director: Terry Gilliam
Country/Distributor: Spain/Belgium/France/Portugal/UK, Screen Media
Opening: April 10
Another of his surreal retellings of the David and Goliath story, Terry is in several ways a time (bandits) machine. On one level, this is the culmination of a dream project that finally sees the light of day after 25 years in the making—the first attempt to shoot it in 2000, with Johnny Depp as Sancho Panza, was derailed by a desert storm and the herniated disc of Jean Rochefort, the original Quixote. Gilliam’s new Sancho figure takes the form of a commercial director, Toby (played by Adam Driver mimicking Depp’s histrionics), on the set of a disastrous production of . This fictive filmmaker combats creative block by recalling his old graduation project—an adaptation of the Cervantes novel.
